Police investigate Vancouver’s first homicide of 2019

Vancouver police are already investigating the city’s first homicide of the year, after a man died in a Downtown Eastside apartment on New Year’s Day.

Officers were called to reports of an assault inside an apartment on Powell Street near Gore at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Vancouver's first homicide of the year happened New Years Day, @VancouverPD have announced. 39 y/o #Vancouver resident Matthew Dillen Johnson was found in a DT Eastside apartment in medical distress and died at the scene. Police don't believe public is at risk. @BlackPressMedia